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Quit Now! Or
you will die!!!
If you are a smoker, it can be hard to quit. You need to want
to stop. You must acquire the willpower to take control. This
usually requires a catalyst. Perhaps an event in your life
causes you to assess your situation, making you decide to turn
your life in a different direction. Or, you may find that one
day you feel so sick from restricted breathing that you cannot
handle smoking anymore.
Smoking is not good for anyone's health, while second hand
smoke has proven to be just as bad.
When you smoke, if you are sharing the room with anybody, you
are hurting them too. Many people smoke for years, which make
it difficult to quit.
Basically, with motivation and a stubborn attitude, you can
easily quit smoking, and stay that way.
Why do people start smoking?
Some people start smoking because they think it is cool and
that their friends will be impressed. They believe it makes
them look mature, or they are rebelling against parents of
teachers. Unfortunately, many people start smoking at a young
age. Many people end up with bronchitis, breathing problems,
cancer, heart disease, emphysema, just to name a few.
As teenagers, we thought it was the cool thing to do, since
all of our friends were doing it. We may have picked up the
habit watching parents or grandparents smoke. Through the
eighties and nineties, a lot of people’s role models were
smoking. Movie stars and musical artists were smoking, as well
as our parents and our friends' parents.
How to stop smoking:
When you want to stop smoking, there is help.
You just have to want to stop. You have gone to want to stop
before anyone or anybody can help you. You can go to your
family doctor and he/she will give you something to help you
to stop. This usually involves NRP or Nicotine Replacement
Therapy, a practice with varying degrees of success, which
also can be addictive in its own right.
On the other hand, maybe you want to “go it alone.”
Everyone has their own idea for trying to quit smoking. Some
think hard candy will help occupy the addicted part of their
brain, while others think that chewing gum will help.
You have to figure out what for yourself what you want to try.
We all have different ideas.
How smoking affects you:
Despite tobacco companies claiming for years that smoking
cigarettes doesn't cause cancer, it has been proven that
smoking causes a wide range of diseases, including cancer.
You can get cancer in your mouth or in your lungs.
You could have a hard time breathing, an accelerated
heartbeat; you may have problems walking across the room
without becoming short of breath.
Many bad things could happen to you smoke cigarettes.
Ironically however, some people smoke for years and nothing
happens to them.
Yet, throughout the years these people feel sluggish, tired,
and often get colds more frequently than most.
The benefits of stopping smoking:
If you quit smoking, all of your personal areas will start to
smell good again. Your car, house and your clothes will no
longer smell like tobacco smoke. You won’t have those nasty
ash trays to empty or wash out. You won’t have to smell
anything but the air you breathe.
If you quit now you will regain your life. So, take action,
unchain yourself from the entrapment of nicotine addiction.
You will feel liberated, happy, and healthy and people will
feel happier about spending time with you.
Some of the reasons people do not quite smoking are because
they believe they will gain excess weight.
On the contrary, smoking will only make you gain weight at a
natural rate. As your body regains its health, it will try to
harmonize itself, by building stores of fat, muscle and
nutrients, as it should have done for so many years.
To improve your life you must take steps to protect your
health, which includes maintaining an ideal, healthy weight
and not smoking. These steps will lead you to a healthier
future.
If you are finding it difficult to kick the habit, we
encourage you to learn about the drugs inside cigarettes. If
it isn’t enough to scare you into stopping now, and then
consider your future, living with an oxygen mask strapped to
your face.
Source:
http://www.smokerswebsite.net |
